The nonfiction debut by the prize-winning novelist adds to the conversation about how disgust is still used as a form of social control
or feminists of the postwar Freudian era, it wasn’t so much disgust we were taking on. We were fighting ideas of lacking . We were being deprived of power, recognition and opportunity. We looked at the consequences of women’s roles as child bearers and emotional nurturers and how our profound dependency on mothers generated fear. We looked at the terrors, disappointments and desire to control that dependency.
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